Seizing Quotes

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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  Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, New Year, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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  Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  1625 Essays, no.52,'Of Ceremonies and Respects'.

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• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strength, Strong, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• One can make a day of any size

  John Muir

  Seize The Day, Brightness, Size

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.218, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Emma ch. 30 (1816)

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Differences, Helping, Our Lives

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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• I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

  Hazel Ying Lee

  Stars, Flower, Carpe Diem

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• Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

  Margaret Fuller

  Funny, Life, Meaningful

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.159, tredition

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• Begin doing what you want to do now.

  Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Procrastination

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• Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Opponents, Dear

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.32, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Ships, Emperor

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

  Julian Assange

  Art, Powerful, Reality

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.120, Canongate Books

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• Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

  Bergen Evans

  Writing, Glitter, Magpies

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